Second Update and Compilation of 4/27/23 Data
After collecting more bones and pellets for a few months after I made the project, I decided it was time for another update. Since early-mid March, I have barely found any new pellets at its roost, so it might be using a different area of the park.
The owl continues to eat more mammals than birds. I have yet to find an herp bones in the pellets, but there's still the rest of spring and summer. After continually finding rufous eastern screech owl feathers throughout the months, I decided that it only ate 1 screech owl.
Taxa | Count |
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Birds | 5 |
Northern Short-tailed Shrew | 2 |
Crows and Ravens | 1 |
Primates, Rodents, and Allies | 1 |
Southern Flying Squirrel | 2 |
New World Blackbirds and Orioles | 1 |
Hares and Rabbits | 1 |
Mammals | 13 |
Eastern Screech-Owl | 1 |
Red-bellied Woodpecker | 1 |
Meadow Voles | 2 |
Old World Mice and Rats | 2 |
Muroids | 1 |
Perching Birds | 11 |
North American Deer Mice | 8 |
Woodpeckers | 1 |
Placental Mammals | 2 |
Old World Rats | 1 |
Brown Rat | 3 |
Rodents | 14 |
Eastern Gray Squirrel | 2 |
White-breasted Nuthatch | 1 |
Eastern Cottontail | 15 |
American Robin | 1 |
Vertebrates | 10 |
Taxa | Count |
---|---|
Mammals | 69 |
Birds | 23 |
UnIDed | 10 |
Total | 102 |
Observation Highlights:
This brown rat partial skull and other bones:
An almost complete northern short tailed shrew skull and other bones:
Many thanks to all of the identifiers!
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